The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 4, 1928, Page 2

Page Two WP THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1978 | ! Broach Reports for Labor Fakers at Meeting of Central Trades Council *LITTLE GAESAR” OF ELECTRICIANS POSES AS ANGEL Fails to Mention Own| Naughtiness On Thursday evening, the meeting of the Centra and Labor ch was de- livered to tt that bod by H. H, Bre national vice- president of workers. Tt was an speech, most unusual. The del did not wish to hear Broach yet they invited him there. he had bided his tim tunity, yet whe him, he pos this not strang Works With Bosses. At this moment the labor movement is in the greatest crisis in its history Everywhere the employers, taking ad- vantage of their str thened posi- tion, are waging a war to the death against the trade unions, Yet on Thursday evening, Broach was able to report that he was conducting a most successful campaign against the em- ployers of his trade—aguinst the small shops, the large manufacturers, the big jobbers, the non-union corpora- tions, the towering public utilities— all! “We have put on the screws here,” he reported. “We have cracked the whip there; we have twisted a tail in another place. And the employers have come cringing to us.” What manner of wonder is this man, Broach? Labor Fakers. For nearly two hours, under a tongue lashing, now open, now indi- rect, at times bitterly sarcastic, at others, ingratiatingly pleasant, the delegates to this most openly reac- tionary, this most cynically corrupt central labor body in the world, writhed and squirmed in silence, sul- Jen and startled. And at the end they applauded! Step by step Broach traced the de- velopments during ‘the year of his battle against the crooked O’Hara group which he had cleaned out of = Local 3. He told of the opposition he “had met from the employers, from the ‘courts, from the city officials, * from the Building Trades Council, from the Central Trades and Labor Council. He referred pointedly to the “friends of these men who still sit in this body.” Corruption. Digressing—at times apparently without reason—he went out of his “way to call attention to the ineffici- ency of the central body, of its meth- ods, “well-known among us trade unionists.” “Yet I am no reformer,” he affirmed. “No puritan.” Referring to the fight that the Building Trades Council had staged in support of the corrupt O’Hara gang, he s: vith tender irony: course, they did not understand the situation as you here didn’t understand the situation.” At one time, merely “as an incidental remark, he announ- eed: “All central bodies are worth- “Jess, paper organizations, anyway!” wAt another, becoming bitter, he charged that “no real stand was be- ing taken on the injunction menace which is facing the lavor movement You hear all this talk about fighting the injunction in the courts. What hypocrisy! These legal gestures! When did labor ever get anything through the courts? Everything we thave ever gained has been won through battle and not by means of the lawyers and their advice!” Nor was this He detail how h trical worke: ganization ¢ pictured in icient, forecful respect.” being taken ounced. m Angel, e the Tammany of the Cen- corrupt y union, busin Not a pen 4m his union, he J A Trade Unie = And all this befc controlled uni ‘tral Trades, of most the “fakerdom in the world! Such a figur 1 ‘stand out as some sh ‘the labor movement, a in the wilderness. © What is wrong with this picture? Is this not the same Broach who no more than four weeks ago before ‘the Industrial Survey Commission ad imitted to playing the rame of the bic ‘employers in the industry, not “the ‘carpet bargers,” he stated, “but those that really counted in the trade.” must ¢ angel of And when he spoke so “frankly”! before the Central Trades, did he not omit the mention of more than a few facts which are of the greatest sig- nificance to the members of his union? We might ask him for the explana- tion of some of these questions: 5 “Efficiency.” 1—You spoke about efficiency, Mr, Broach? But is it not true that Yon now haye on your payroll some 20 business agerts at a salary of $100 per week, a weekly total of $2,- 900. Is not the expense of running your local “business” nearly $5,000 ‘ e “of! - t voice crying |* ae] Dr. Henry Schireson, shown above, denied y that he had per- formed an on on Miss Sadie Holland, Chicago stenographer, fol- lowing whi be amputated. He named his asso- ciate in the case, Dr, S, D. Zaph, as having operated Miss Holland, who is suing Schireson for $250,000. WEISBORD SPEAKS { [AT PASSAIC MEET Demands Relief for | 20,000 Jobless (Continued from Page One) pected to be allowed little or no par- ticipation in this meeting and little action for their .relief is expected. Speakers will include business men, trade union officials of generally re- actionary views, and politicians of the capitalist parties. The Galaxy. According to an announcement last | night, today’s opening A. F. of L.j} conference session will be followed} by a banquet at which the principal speakers will be Matthew Woll, vice- president of the A. F. of L., who has admitted hi: of the proposed U. S. anti-strike bill; James J. Davis, Coolidge’s secretary of labor; G. S. Aldous, secretary of the Passaic chamber of commerce; Mayor Roeg- ner, of Passaic, and former judge Ca- bell of the Passaic district court. Sunday, at a second A. F. of L. session, Thomas F. McMahon will speak with representatives of the manufacturers and business men, in addition to Dr. H. S. Person, effi- ciency expert of the Taylor Society. McMahon, president of the United Textile Workers of America, will “solve” the serious unemployment in the industry with a talk on the sub- ject: “Research, the Proposed Solu- tion of the Textile Worker.” Party Proposes Action. The mass meeting of the Workers Party at Passaic earlier in the day will present a concrete program for immediate organization and relief for the unemployed in sharp contrast to the anti-labor character of the ban- quet. in a statement pointing out that a total of 20,000 are unemployed in this district, including Lodi, Ruth- erford, Clifton and Garfield, the fol- lowing demands are made: 1—Work or wages for the unem- lic works to absorb jobless workers; 3—Unemployment insurance; 4—The stations with city funds, by a committee of unemployed work- ers; 5—The reduction of hours so as to give employment to a greater num- ber of workers; 6—No evictions from homes for workers unemployed and; 7—The recognition and opening up of trade relations wth the Soviet Union. Young Workers League Wii Held Buro Meet; Miners’ Strike Report An erlarged boro: meeting of the Young Workers (Communist) League wiil ope londay after the Plenum of the Workers (Communist) Party is ended, The district organizers and other leading league functionaries are ar- viving for the sessions, George Pap- i ¢ in the anthracite field ohey, young mine leader, already reached New York. he agenda will include 1, Report jot ¢ Ceatral Committee on the Party Plenum, Max Bedacht; 2. Re- port of the League Buro on League activily, Herbert Zam; 3. Report on the Coal Mining Campaign, Pat Tooh- ey; 4. Report on the Organizational Stability of the League, Nat Kaplan; 5, Mass activity oi League Bridge Organizers, Will Herberg; 6. Sports Activity of the League, Jack Stone; and 7, Statutes of the League, Nat Kaplan. (SSS per week, all told? A quarter of a million dollars a year! Has not your “organization” campaign during the past year cost the members of Local 5 over $300,000? For this enormous sum, you claim to have added per- haps a thousand members to the union? “Results” are what count, you thundered last Thursday night. What, do you say to a $5,000 a week expen- aiture at a time when unemployment (Continued on Page Four) . h both her legs had to | ployed; 2—The construction of pub-| establishment immediately of relief} conducted | AGENT OF BRITAIN HISSED IN N.Y, De Valera Explains Op-, position to King’sAgent | Gales of hisses that filled the | Columbia University gynasium | greeted president Cosgrave, of Ire- | land, today when he appeared at the | jmid-Semester quiz with President | |Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia. | | A Tool of British Tyranny. | As soon as the Irish president ap- red the hisses started. As the ing head of the Irish Free State Government started toward the exit however, the hissing was renewed, and was unrestrained. “Ireland Wants Freedom.” “Ireland wants complete independ- ence, not what they have now.” Eamon De Valera, head of the Re- publican Party in Ireland, made this | assertion in an interview today in ex plaining why he is opposed to the present Cosgrave administration. Iu response to a question whether there was a possibility of further bloodshed he declared: “As long as Ireland is not free | there will always be a body of Irish- men, working in the open or secret, |who may take any measures to bring |about their freedom.” Asked if he would visit President William T. Cosgrave of the Irish Free State, who is also in New York and stopping at a hotel only a few |blocks away, De Valera said: “No, I will not. We never meet so- cially. I haven’t seen Mr. Cosgrave and don’t expect to see him.” Would Defeat Cosgrave. De Valera, indicated that, in his opinion, Cosgrave accepted bread’ for Ireland when he might have had cake. De Valera would go further than Cos- |pe | grave. “If the people of Ireland were to take a vote today, they would ballot two to one for complete freedom,” said De Valera. “The Irish Free State is a com- promise with England. It exists be- cause of the threat of war. Its con- stitution has been dictated by Great Britain. This constitution interferes in the affairs of Ireland in every single act. The British do not have to come over to Ireland to interfere— a ‘for them a eee acute, SIGMAN MISUSED FUNDS FOR RELIEF (Continued from Page One) benefit and other properties of the in- dividual local unions. Several days ago Sigman admitted before the meet- ing of his general executive board that the union no longer controls 51 per cent of the stock in the Interna- tional Union Bank. He stated that the stock had been sold to outside non-union interests. It is estimated by reliable author- ities that he realized more than $500,- 000 from the bank stock sale alone. | Approximately $600,000 was obtained | by him from the workers’ unemploy- | ment fund, and another large amount was obtained by the sale of properties | belonging to local unions. | This letter proves conclusively that all these sums have been squandered jin the fight against the Joint Board, which has resulted in union condi- tions being completely abolished in |the industry. | When asked for an opinion on the letter, the Joint Board officials, said: “This merely shows in black and white the facts that have been known to all the garment workers for a long time, but at the same time it is very use- ful in dispelling the possible illusions Sigman may have created in the minds of those who are not in New York, the center of the fight.” They |added, “it certainly helps to expose the decay in the Sigman machine, ‘again proving that their collapse is imminent.” The matter referred to in the be- |ginning of the letter shows the man- ner in which the Secretary of the | Bookkeepers’ Union openly conspired jto discharge from the Amalgamated | Bank, Harry Rubin who recentiy tried to change the company union system junder which the bank was operating, jinto a real union. Horthy Sentences Baron To 7 Years in Jail for ‘Sued an aa COSCRAVE, IRISH Workers Burn 4 Beds RANK AND FILE the family of Armando Mantioi, a baker of Phila- delphia, were burned to death in Six members of ‘heir frame house, A 17-year-old son, Albert, shown above, was the sole survivor, The father, Armando, Carlina, the mother, and four chil- dren, ranging from 2 to 8 years of age, all perished in their beds, as the flames swept the flimsy dwell- ing’ whieh “the worker’s family called their home. WORKERS PARTY SEES BIG CRISIS Trade Unions in Danger Must Fight (Continued from Page One) poorer farmers from the political par- ties of the capitalist class, to bring about the formation of a labor party in the United States. The War Danger. That the danger of war, with the colossal power of the Wall Street gov- ernment thrown into world-carnage as one of the chief belligerants, with the danger of an_ imperialist attack against the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics as the most significant phase of the present day, is a point that will be stressed by the Commun- ists in extensive plans for concreté action against these dangers. Mexico and Canada Represented. Present at the sessions of the plenum will be representatives of the Communist Parties of Mexico and Canada, who will take an active part in discussing measures against United States imperialism. The sessions will open with a re- port by Jay Lovestone which will be followed by a report by William Z. Foster, The question of the Trotsky-Zino- viev opposition in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, its discus- sion in the United States and the problems and tasks it raises for the American section the Communist International, will considered on a report by Bertram D. Wolfe. The forty-eight members and can- didates of the Central Committee from all parts of the country will take part in the sessions. Many of the alter- nates will also be present, District organizers, the heads of the language fraction bureaus, the editors of the 23 papers published by the Party, and the members of the National Execu- tive Committee of the Young Work- ers League, will all have the right to attend all sessions. At the opening session Saturday af- ternoon the public will be admitted. There may be other open sessions, but at most of the sessions admission will be by cards which will be given only to Party functionaries. Rochester Pact Off ROCHESTER, N. Y., Feb. 3.— Negotiations for the renewal of the existing agreement between the Ro- chester clothing employers and the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of} America, which was to have been be-} gun yes.erday, was postponed for two weeks. j It was stated that both the union! and the bosses have agreed to this. | The terms of the pact in existence to-| day requires tha: negotiations begin! on February 2. DEMAND BOSSES STOP WAGE CUT ‘Ignore Textile Council \ in Militant Vote FALL RIVER, Mass., Feb. 3.—The first move of a definite character yet taken to disregard the anti-strike manoeuvres of the officials of the Fall River Textile Council, was taken when a membership meeting of the loom fixers’ union, held Thursday evening, ‘unanimously instructed its secretary to go over the heads of the Textile Council, and demand from the employ- ers the withdrawal of the wage cut. The meeting of the loom fixers was exceptionally stormy, due to the out- bursts of resentment at the Council leaders in not permitting all the tex- | tile workers to take a strike vote. Many members and even the lower functionaries of the union demanded immediate withdrawal from the Tex- tile Council. The action of this union is especially significant in view of the fact that it is the strongest union in the city, and in addition can boast 100 per cent or- ganization. Even the s.atements of the bosses in the trade papers admit that should a strike of this union oc- cur it would seriously cripple all pro- duction. Wiliam McNamara, secretary of the Weavers’ Union, also made a state- ment yesterday that the members of his union are ready to take action to have their reduction restored. He added that the dissatisfaction of the weavers at the wage cut was grea.ly heightened by the fact that wages were being cut in many instances 15 and not 10 per cent. He said that a meeting of the weavers would soon be held as chey were also condemning the method employed by the Council offi- cials in tabulating the strike vote. It is generally believed here that a general strike of formidable propor- tions will yet deveop here despite the efforts of the higher union leaders to the contrary. A strike of the well organized and more or less skilled workers here, ac-| cording to competent opinion, will lead to a walkout of the thousands of un- organized, and unskilled workers. Four large mills in this center are already crippled by strikes almost a week old. ~ 8 *@ Bosses Fear Unrest. BOSTON, Feb. 3. — A statement | issued by the textile manufacturers here says that, “the wage situation , thruout the textile centers in New! England apparently is not solving it-| self as rapidly as expected.” In addi- tion to growing signs of general re- sistance evident in the centers where the wage reduction has been put thru, they point to an aggravating fac.or in the situation. The Rhode Island employers that were expected to fol- low suit in making a reduction have Besmirched ‘by Oil This is Beman G. Dawes, brother of Vice-President Dawes. Profits realized on funds he loaned Humph- ries’ oil company were invested in Liberty bonds some of which turned up later in the possession of the former Secretary of the Interior, Albert B. Fall. REDISCOUNT RATE RAISED IN N.Y. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York, following the lead of the Chi- cago and Richmond, Va., reserve banks, advanced its rediscount rate from 3% to 4 per cent on Friday morning. This is a return to the rate prevailing before last August when the rate was reduced one-half a cent. The effect of this raise will be to cause money to flow to the New York market and to stop the wave of in- vestments in foreign countries. The raise of the rediscount rate also means that money is “tighten- ing,” that is becoming scarcer. PLAN AFFAIR FOR NAT'L TRAINING COURSE STUDENTS Call Classes Landmar in Party History Dorsha and the Sterling Trio hid been secured for the concert progr’ |at the reception to be given the si | denis of the three months’ nation |day training course of the Work School, which will:be held at the I ing Plaza Hall, Irving Place and 1f | St., next Wednesday, at 8 p. m. Dorsha, interpretative dancer, is th. founder of the Theatre of the Dance. The Sterling Trio, composed of Be.ty Denkowitz, (piano) Hyman Denkowitz (violin), and Jacob Pol- lack (cello), have appeared regularly on radio concert programs for three years and are well known to visitors of thd’ Freiheit concerts. Among the speakers there will be Jay “Lovestone, William Z. Foster, Bertram D. Wolfe, William W. Wein- stone and two of the s.udents. The New York District Executive Committee, Workers (Communist) Party issued a statement yesterday on the opening of the school, that reads in part as follows: “The national school for party training which will be established in New York City is an event of the greatest importance to the Party and 0 the working class, “The New York District feels proud that the schovl will be established in its territory and greets the establish- ment of this institution of Communist training. The mass meeting next Wednesday, Feb. 8,in Irving Plaza Hall, which will launch the school should receive the support not only of all members of the Party but of all revolutionary workers interested in carrying on the fight for the over- throw of the powerful system of American imperialism and for the es- cablishment Of the rule of the work- ingclass.” § SPEAKERS: Jay Lovestone Wm. Z. Foster W. W. Weinstone T Bertram D. Wolfe Ben Gold A Student See not as yet done so. It is expected that the Rhode Is- land manufacturers will install a sys- tem of increased production at the same pay instead of a wage cut. This is erticized by the other employers as not enough, since many employers in northern New England are preparing to cut wages an addivional 10 per cent. Most of the mill owners say that they are afraid “trouble” will ensue in the “absorption” of two cuts while Rhode {sland bosses make no reductions. *. * * Utica Wages Slashed. UTICA, N. Y., Feb, 3. — The Uti- ca Knitting Company will introduce a ten per cent reduction in wages in all departments of all its local mills be- ginning Monday. Employees are being advised of the impending wage cut. The reduction foliows a similar cut announced by the McLoughlin Tex- tile Corp., for its yarn mill, and may be followed by similar announcements from ovher mills, a dispatch states. *“_ * * PAWTUCKET, R, I., Feb. 3. —The | Lonsdale Company, one of the larg- est cotton manufacturing firms in this state, today announced a shutdown of two mills. According to the be- | lief of many workers here, this was done as a preliminary step before wage cut ac.ion, or the institution of the multiple loom system, which requires workers to take care of more looms than previously. poeen nee ee Criticising Terrorism | VIENNA, Feb. 3.—Baron Ludwig Havatny, once weal'hy Hungarian Jewish sugar magnate, opponent of \the Hungarian Soviet Republic and jally of the socialist government of | Count Karolyi, has been sentenced’ to |seven years imprisonment and fined {$500,000 for criticizing the Horthy white terrorist regime, despatches from Budapest report. The fine is said to have taken the remains of Havatny’s once great fortune, wrung from the sweat of sugar workers and squandered originally to overthrow the workers’ and peasants’. govern- ment of Hungary. BEACON, N. Y. Social] Entertainments.—Skating Rink. Steam Heated Spacious Rooms.—Deli- cious ! Winter Vacation In | Camp Ni ONLY SEVENTEEN DOLLARS PER WEEK. Greet the Students Three Months N ational Day raining Course IRVING PLAZA HALL Irving Place and 15th Street Admission 25 cents. Pay at door. Hear the Sterling Trio LECTURES AND FORUMS AT COOPER UNION (8th ST. and ASTOR PLACE) At 8 o’Clock SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 5th Concert by the AMERICAN ORCHESTRAL SOCIETY Chalmers Clifton, Conductor. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7th MR. NELS ANDERSON “Democracy in the Great City.” FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10th Mr. EVERETT DEAN MARTIN The Psychology of the American Public—*The Land of the Free’. Whitman and the Psychology of Government by Crowds,” ADMISSION FREE. Open Forum Discussion, THE PEOPLE'S INSTITUTE Muhlenberg Branch Li (209- WEST 23rd STREET) At 8 o'Clock | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6th DR. MARK VAN DOREN Hight Poets—“Chaucer.” WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8th “ DR. ROBERT CHAMBERS Experimental Analysis Cell—“Discovery of. the Gell ‘and ine General Conception of Protoplasm.” THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9th DR. E. G. SPAULDIN Fundamental sitrecere a lems — “Does Genesis Determ| Vsiidity?”; Wm. James, tae SATURDAY, FEBRUARY lith BE HORACE M. KALLEN Are a Problem.” TOMORROW NIGHT 8 o’clock ROBERT W. DUNN and JACK LEVER will speak on teedaiget Food. “WHAT WE SAW IN THE SOVIET UNION” Observations, impressions and evaluation of life and conditions in the Soviet Union by members of the two American Trade Union Delega- tions to the Soviet Union, WORKERS SCHOOL FORUM 408 BAST 14th STRERT Admission 25c, NEXT SUNDAY: Jay Lovestone will speak on “ 4] ‘perouw’ Auierica,” UABOR TEMPLE 14th street « SUNDAY, FEBRUAR® Sth 3 P, M.—Lecture Dr. G, F. Beck—"The Alcestis of Euripides.” M.—Am, Int. Church G. F. Beck—'The Inadequacy of Materialism.” 8:30 P. M.—Forum Ianac Don Levine—The Fall of Trotsky.” Tomorrow night at 8230 sharp JAY LOVESTONE i s “The Decisive Struggles in t American Labor Movement’ BRONX OPEN. FORUM || 2075 Clinton Ave, Ppt pop lag age tap on Nienrages ‘U! BRONX "WORKERS" SCHOOL, “COAL DIGGER” ON SALE. PITTSBURGH, Feb. 8 (FP)—Edi- tors ‘of “The Coal Digger,” organ of the Save the Union Committee of the United’ Mine Workers, announce that the paper may be obtained from Room 405, 526 Federal St., N.S., “Pittsburgh, Pa: "fhe paper is '6-cents ‘per copy, issued semi-monthly, and $11' ao The Save the Union Committee. a vocates militant action to organize all U.S. coal fields, nationalization of mines with a Labor Party.